International news broadcaster Bloomberg Television has signed a European SNG contract with Arqiva. Bloomberg Television will have dedicated use of an Arqiva SNG truck including camera and production facilities. Arqiva will also provide backhaul, satellite capacity, downlink and onpass. Malcolm Campbell, Commercial Director at Arqiva Broadcast & Media, said: “Bloomberg Television is renowned for covering […]
James Murdoch has made his toughest statement yet on what could happen should British media regulators refuse News Corp’s bid to acquire the 61 per cent of BSkyB it does not own. He told delegates at Morgan Stanley’s annual media and telecoms conference in Barcelona that the UK government must decide whether it wants to […]
Europe Media Port (EMP), has been named the world’s fastest growing teleport for the second consecutive year by the World Teleport Association (WTA), the industry’s professional organisation. Europe Media Port partners directly with satellite operators and teleport facilities around the world to provide diverse end-to-end solutions to the satellite service market. “Europe Media Port was […]
Egypt’s Nilesat, fresh from the success of launching its Nilesat 201 satellite, and despite taking a long-term capacity from near-neighbour Eutelsat, is also looking for an additional orbital position to allow for further business expansion. Nilesat’s orbital ‘hot spot’ is already home to some 572 channels. Nilesat’s chief engineer Salah Hamza says: “It is a […]
Cyfrowy Polsat SA, Poland’s biggest satellite television broadcaster, has agreed to buy Telewizja Polsat SA, its parent company which is also controlled by billionaire Zygmunt Solorz-Zak , for 3.75 billion zloty ($1.3bn). Cyfrowy will pay 2.6 billion zloty in cash and the rest in the form of 80 million new shares valued at 14.37 zloty […]
Richard Horwood, once head of Mirror Group newspapers, has talked to government UK advisers about a national channel with multiple local opt-outs. Horwood, who once managed Trinity Mirror Television which included Live TV, is thought to be proposing to launch Channel 6, which would serve 25 million homes with a skeleton of national programming and […]
Paris-based The Strategic Investment Fund, Eutelsat’s second largest shareholder with a 25 per cent stake, said yesterday that it had no intention to withdraw from the satellite operator. “The performance of the company and its future strategy does not lead us to consider disengagement,” said Thierry Sommelet, Director of Investment at SIF, talking to La […]
VT iDirect, a company of VT Systems, has announced that SatLink Communications, a leading provider of transmission solutions for video, audio and data over satellite platforms, fiber and IP, has launched an iDirect Evolution network to enhance its data services. By purchasing a new Evolution satellite hub, SatLink is offering complete service coverage across Europe, […]
Hot on the heels of last month’s decisions to drop more than a dozen Arabic channels from Nilesat comes news that some 25 Iraqi channels are threatened with closure because they are unlicensed. BBC Monitoring is reporting that a senior Iraqi official in the Communications and Media Commission has threatened to shut down the channels. […]
REAL Digital, the ‘alternative pay-TV provider’ which says it will launch a DTH service in January next year, has won a case before the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal meaning it must, in principle, be included in the wholesale pricing offer imposed on BSkyB in respect of Sky Sports 1 and 2. This means Real, a […]